Conflict Exists With the Acceptance of Tobacco Industry Money... The Alberta Medical Association, the voice of 97% of the physicians in the province adopted its addiction medicine section's position in opposing the involvement of and/or sponsorship by the tobacco industry in any activity - especially research - at Alberta universities, colleges and medical research institutions. However, US Smokeless Tobacco Company, makers of Copenhagen and Skoal tobacco have provided a $1.5 million grant to the Univeristy of Alberta for the study of smokeless tobacco. The controversial grant was approved by the University’s board of ethics, providing the funding to Dr. Carl V Phillips, assistant professor of public health in the faculty of medicine. (Tobacco Control 15:422, 2006)